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According to a blog post by Jim Romahn (http://agri007.blogspot.com/2013/06/court-documents-detail-egg-deficiencies.html), Canada Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reports demonstrate that the statements made by Norman Bourdeau about cracks being packed into retail Grade A egg cartons, are true. Attempts to keep this evidence hidden have been going on for years and now the ‘yolk’ is on L. H. Gray/Gray Egg Farms. The consequences for this are yet to be determined, but let’s hope there are some consequences. Especially since Gray, through his legal representative, has been protesting and denying this practice vehemently since this whole saga began.

Gray isn’t the only party who said the equivalent of “but I didn’t inhale”. Burnbrae Eggs and the Egg Farmers of Ontario also took that position. So is Mr. Bourdeau correct about them too? I had hoped that Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission would have at least checked into EFO as they are the supervising body for EFO. Literally after years of repeated requests, Farm Products is finally (and probably reluctantly) ‘investigating’ EFO – but it’s just their transparency that is being questioned. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve been hollering about EFO’s lack of transparency for years so I’m thankful that Farm Products is finally doing something – or at least appear to be doing something. But this goes beyond transparency and that should be evident to all parties involved – egg producers, graders, Farm Products, CFIA and the Ministry of Agriculture. If only the majority of consumers understood the egg industry and supply management, this would have been investigated long ago.

It appears that Mr. Bourdeau is not Chicken Little stating that the sky is falling. The question is how many foxes are there in this tale?